NOTE 14 – SEVERANCE COSTS

Pursuant to a management succession agreement entered into in fiscal 2004 as subsequently amended, the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer, Robert J. Ready, relinquished this title and related management responsibilities when the Company hired and appointed a new Chief Executive Officer in October 2014. Mr. Ready remained on the Company’s Board of Directors until his death in March 2015, but was no longer Chairman of the Board following the November 2014 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The management succession agreement provided for 18 months of compensation to be paid to Mr. Ready, which resulted in a severance charge in the second quarter of fiscal 2015 of $800,000. Severance payments totaling $224,000 were made in the second and third quarters of fiscal 2015. The remaining $576,000 severance liability was recognized as income when Mr. Ready died in March 2015. Pursuant to the management succession agreement a $1 million self-insured death benefit was paid to Mr. Ready’s beneficiary in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015.

In January 2015, the Company initiated a reduction in force and recorded severance charges of $340,000 and facility exit charges of $21,200 in the third quarter of fiscal 2015. This reduction in force and employee retirements that occurred early in the third quarter of fiscal 2015 represented approximately 8.3% of the Company’s total salaried workforce and approximately $3.7 million of annual total compensation and benefit reductions.

The Company recorded severance charges of $223,000 and $178,000 in the Graphics Segment in the second and third quarters of fiscal 2016, respectively.

The activity in the Company’s Accrued Severance Liability is as follows for the periods indicated:

(In thousands)	Nine Months Ended March 31, 2016			Nine Months Ended March 31, 2015			Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2015

Balance at beginning of the period	$	379		$	--		$	--
Accrual of expense		401			1,297			1,718
Payments		(544	)		(530	)		(704	)
Adjustments		(67	)		(635	)		(635	)
Balance at end of the period	$	169		$	132		$	379